Chicago Boss generally won’t be installed to your system (/usr/local etc.). All of the work occurs in user-land. You’ll download a release, and then use it to generate projects.
Install Erlang R13A or later
- Check with
erlang:system_info(otp_release). - On Windows Vista or Windows 7 -
- you need install win openSSL (http://www.slproweb.com/products/Win32OpenSSL.html)
- make mochiweb with msys or cygwin
- On all windows
- Download and build rebar(http://alancastro.org/2010/05/01/erlang-application-management-with-rebar.html), then add it to your path and use it instead of the version included with ChicagoBoss.
Download the latest code or a release from the website
Build Chicago Boss with
make
To generate the latest documentation of API calls localy:
cd /path/to/ChicagoBoss-x.y.z
make edoc
cd doc/
You should see api.html, api-controller.html, etc
To create a project in the parent directory, simply type
make app PROJECT=my_new_project
(Project names must start with a lowercase letter.) Then cruise over to it and start up the server:
cd ../my_new_project
./init-dev.sh
(On Windows, execute start-dev.bat instead of start-dev.sh.)
There will be a lot of PROGRESS REPORTs which look scary but hopefully everything is running smoothly. With this console you can interact directly with the running server.
Point your browser to http://localhost:8001/
If all is well you will see a forbidding error message about the requested template — not to worry, the new project is empty so there is nothing to serve!
Next steps:
- Install the [[Admin Interface]]
- [[Application Architecture]]
- [[Example Application]]
- [[Configuration]]
- [[An Evening With Chicago Boss]]
- Chicago Boss API docs